I must admit, it’s not “just” a remaster, but they somehow managed to capture the spirit of '06 when this first came out PERFECTLY. Picture this: I was still in college and studying at home when Oblivion was finally released. I had been waiting for it for a long time (to my young mind back then) and I remember it was a perfectly beautiful, sunny day and I was home alone with no obvious way to get to a game store.
So I asked my elderly neighbor if I could borrow her clunker of a car for “an errand” and drove over an hour to the nearest game shop.
From the game itself I mostly remember how drop-dead gorgeous everything seemed - and how terrible my PC’s performance was back then, especially in outdoors areas.
Today, I experienced the exact same form of awe, followed by the most gorgeous graphics I could imagine, and… 15 fps outdoors. EXACTLY how things used to be when I was a young man.
Magic. Truly a win for Bethesda (after Starfield). Now all I need is a PC who can actually run the damn thing on high with over 60 FPS.
I have a 4070 ti and I still got 17fps after leaving the sewers. The game runs like ass.
Dang, I’m playing it on a Series X and it looks and runs great.
Damn, this is with everything on max at 4K with DLSS & Framegen?
3840x1080 ultra wide. Tried low, medium, high, and ultra, dlss on and off, and it’s still ran like a potato
You brought back some memories for me. Exiting the sewer for the first time. Setting graphics to full and waiting for the details to slowly emerge. An audible “wow” left my lips, then I set the graphics back down to as low as they could go so I could actually play.
I don’t understand fully. I haven’t played the game since it first came out and I played it on the 360. But this remaster almost feels like a half UE5 conversation with an AI generateded character updates. Like it half looks like absolute trash except for the scenery.
I know it’s not a remake or a complete overhaul. But did the character movement slide this much on the original? Did all the NPCs you talk to look like they’re in late stage face cancer?
Yes, actually they looked worse than this, it looked so much worse.
I like to describe classic Oblivion characters as looking like they were all carved from the same potato.
I would imagine lol. It’s been so long. Oh well, having a fun time regardless minus the terrible optimization that is UE5
This looks like a very solid remaster where they also fixed some glaring issues with the original like the outragious leveling (and therefore to some degree the scaling-) system. I am not a huge Bethesda fan but they did many things right with this. I hope that this remaster will be available on GOG at some point as well.
So far I’m loving it, and I say this as someone that has played Oblivion every few months since release. I had to move the original to my external drive to make room for the remaster. Still just getting, started but so far it’s a very faithful upgrade.
I’m playing it on the Series X and it runs smoother than the OG while looking like a modern AAA game.
They did a great job with this remaster. You can tell another studio with actual passion for the game did most of the work.
